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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812349103321

Autore

Martin Stephen-Paul

Titolo

The possibility of music / / Stephen-Paul Martin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, Ala., : FC2, c2007

ISBN

1-57366-801-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (161 p.)

Disciplina

813/.54

Soggetti

American fiction

American literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Impossible; The Possibility of Music; A New Kind of Happiness; Worlds Converging; Ecstatic Ellipsis; Collapsing into a Story

Sommario/riassunto

An exhilarating collection about the limits of language, narrative, and identity.  The Possibility of Music is an imaginative reconstruction of America in the early 21st century. What would our post-9/11 society look like if it were viewed through a series of funhouse mirrors?Each of Stephen-Paul Martin's stories is a response to this question, a prose exploration that redefines what it means to write fiction in a world in which the Sistein Chapel has become the Mall of America. Nightmarish at times, playfully amusing at others, Martin's prose is relentles